Glen Wood

Glen Wood is the Analytics Operations Officer for the Navy Chaplain Corps. A native of California, he has a B.A. from Bethany University, Santa Cruz, CA, an M.Div. from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and graduated from The Marine Corps University, obtaining his Joint Professional Military Education qualification.

Glen’s 29 years of military service has taken him around the world with a variety of different types of commands. His installation tours include Naval Construction Battalion Center, Port Heuneme, CA; Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, CA; Naval Station Norfolk, VA, and Marine Corps Air Station, Futenma, Okinawa, Japan. His operational tours include Destroyer Squadron 9, Everett, WA; 3rd Marine Logistics Group, Okinawa, Japan; 3rd Marine Corps Division, Okinawa, Japan; and Marine Central Command Forward, Manama, Bahrain. Glen served as a Department Head for Marine Corps Installations Command, Okinawa, Japan, and Region Mid Atlantic, Norfolk, VA.

Working with the Navy’s Digital Transformation Office, Glen is the Program Lead for developing and producing The Religious Ministries Analytics tool (RMAT), an agile data collection program to allow the Navy Chaplain Corps to analyze trends, establish training requirements, and measure service efficiencies. Glen coordinated the Navy’s first citizen developer “Hack-A-Thon,” bringing together a team of more than twenty Officers and Enlisted personnel serving the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard, alongside of ServiceNow representatives, to develop a tool that can be used throughout the world in every military environment both operational and shore.